Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience - Couverture souple

Goldstein, E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0495103535 ISBN 13 : 9780495103530

Editeur : Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2007

Synopsis

Connecting the study of cognition to everyday life in an unprecedented way, Bruce Goldstein's COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY gives equal treatment to both the landmark studies and the cutting-edge research that define this fascinating field. The text employs a wealth of concrete examples and illustrations that will help students understand the theories of cognition -- driving home both the scientific importance of the theories and their relevance to students' daily lives. Students will leave this text with a true understanding of the "behind the scenes" activity that happens in the mind when humans do such seemingly simple activities as perceiving, remembering, or thinking. Goldstein's coverage also focuses on the behavioral and physiological approaches to cognition by including physiological materials in every chapter. To help students further experiment with the concepts discussed in the text, free pincode access to CogLab: The Online Cognitive Psychology Laboratory is automatically packaged with every new copy of the text. Students also automatically receive the Concept Maps with CogLab Online Manual. The manual includes 60 "Concept Maps," which present the major concepts in the text using a visual approach that will help students remember the material.

A propos du livre

About the author :

E. Bruce Goldstein is Director of Undergraduate Programs in Psychology and is a member of the cognitive psychology group in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. He has received the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award for his classroom teaching and textbook writing. He received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University, his PhD in experimental psychology from Brown University, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the biology department at Harvard University. Bruce has published papers on a wide variety of topics, including retinal and cortical physiology, visual attention, and the perception of pictures. He is the author of Sensation & Perception, 6th edition (Wadsworth, 2002), Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience (Wadsworth, 2005), and edited the Blackwell Handbook of Perception (Blackwell, 2001). He currently teaches cognitive psychology, sensation and perception, and the psychology of visual art (undergraduate), and teaching of psychology (graduate).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0495103535
• ISBN 13: 9780495103530
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 608